Author
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio is documented in Fuller’s letters and reading notebooks. One work is named, most often in Letter to unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
No datable encounters with Pollio, Marcus Vitruvius have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“But I want more engravings, [Vitruvius,] Magna Grecia, the [Ionian] Antiquities &c.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Fuller names "Vitruvius" among illustrated architectural works she wishes to consult, with the bracketed word supplied from the Memoirs version according to Hudspeth's note.
“with great respect / for Vitruvius, the oracle / of his day, to have / felt that these / were yet higher sources.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.
Inferred Fuller does not name the specific title but Vitruvius was known by a single major work.